Routines

Seven times in the last eight years the Intercollegiate Games have been won by a California college. Last week Stanford, true to precedent, was first at Cambridge, 17 2/3 points ahead of Yale. The big event was the pole vault in which the three best vaulters in the world competed--Ward Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle west, did what was expected at Evanston, Ill., and by winning eleven points out of sixteen kept the track and field championship of the Big Ten. George Simpson (Ohio State) won two events, the 100 and the 220-yard dash. Lately Cambridge has been beating Oxford at most sports. There are generally some American Rhodes scholars on the Oxford teams. Last week Cambridge stuck to routine in 13 tennis matches. There were three U. S. players on the Oxford team.